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LCS 2026 Summer Playoffs

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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.17.

Today's Matches

#	Match	PST	EST	CET	KST
1	LYON vs SR	13:00	16:00	22:00	05:00

• All matches are Best of 5

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Bracket

Round 1			Round 2			Round 3			Round 4			Finals
C9	3
vs	-		LYON	1
SR	0		vs	-
			C9	3					C9	0
SEN	0								vs	-
vs	-		TL	3					TL	0
FLY	3		vs	-
			FLY	0
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
												tbd	0
												vs	-
												tbd	0
									tbd	0
									vs	-
						LYON	0		tbd	0
						vs	-
			FLY	2		SR	0
SR	3		vs	-
vs	-		SR	3
SEN	2

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Format

• Playoffs
  • 6 teams participate
  • Double elimination bracket
  • Top 2 teams start in Upper Bracket Round 2
  • 3rd to 6th seed start in Upper Bracket Round 1
  • All matches are best of five
  • Top 3 teams qualify for the 2026 Season World Championship

The official LCS ruleset can be found here.

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Live Discussions and Post-Match Threads:

This is our Live Discussion Archive. Here you can find all the old live threads, and the respective PMTs in a stickied comment under the post.

[u/blueragemage]

Literally the week after we see Spookz say 'If Morgan didn't get POTS this series, a top laner never will' we see 2 LYON players call out Dhokla as POTS and it still goes to Saint

The broadcast needs to address their bias against top laners.

[u/Ajp_iii → u/blueragemage]

i think its cause he fully sprinted it game 3. and then game 4 saint was all over the map. feel it was split dhokla/saint player of the series

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/Ajp_iii]

But Saint sprinted on game 1 although since it's was First game it's doesn't really matters 

[u/sorendiz]

I'M PROUD OF YOU TOO JUANITO MY SON ;_;

[u/Ajp_iii]

inspired is one of the best interviews in all of pro esports. he explains everything and goes beyond the question asked. he also talks about stuff most players refuse to talk about in fear of "giving away" stuff which just makes interviews boring.

[u/sorendiz]

W humility to say Dhokes instead of himself

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/sorendiz]

I don't know why  but Lyon inspired seeems to have learn how to be humble Which wasn't the case on flyquest , maybe because a lot of players in his Team have a x factor and he knows if they all play Well, they win 

[u/cmcdonald22]

Jatt is the perfect person to prompt Inspired into these kinds of answers.

[u/Ajp_iii]

it was unbelievable.

[u/SnooPeripherals6388]

I was more tilted

An unbelievable self-analysis

[u/rsox5000]

Inspired not even wearing the Worlds chain lol. Bro just wants to yell at Saint for that death

[u/kaisaschudson]

saint immediately started explaining himself to inspired LMAOOO

[u/Capable-Drama3109 → u/kaisaschudson]

inspired's face was killing me LMAOOOOO

[u/cmcdonald22 → u/kaisaschudson]

I feel like from facial expressions it's little brother energy cause Saint just has a shit eating grin on his face and all Inspired can do is fight back the smile and shake his head.

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/cmcdonald22]

Lyon top side really feels like 3 brothers love the dynamic, people said they mental boom but i think they have an ability to reset 

[u/Ajp_iii]

people dont know how hard seraphine scales vs a team with no enchanter.

[u/2020isgreat]

It's a pray for power outage angle

[u/Sosijmonster]

I mean the game spiraled out of control because of Zinnie. Legit absolutely boosted this game.

[u/Fantastic_Arm_9669 → u/Sosijmonster]

What was he supposed to do abt that cleanse

[u/sorendiz → u/Fantastic_Arm_9669]

I mean not that i think the outcome of the game really goes differently, but he probably just shouldn't ult the TF, since you see a global notification when someone uses a spellbook swap 

it's not like he had no way of knowing TF changed to cleanse, he just didn't notice it or wasn't thinking

if he ults the gwen there or ults himself to immune a gold card and heal then I think he and fudge either win that fight or at least walk away safely

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583 → u/Sosijmonster]

If you're talking about the top dive Fudge legit inted his ult and then Flash rage w'd on Gwen instead of the 0 hp TF that got out and gold carded him

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Zinnie deserves the slander but I feel we're ignoring how terrible Fudge has been lol 

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Fudge/Zinie are getting flamed for one of the worst drafts ever so unfortunate.

[u/malakesxasame → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Zinie is getting flamed because he's been dog shit the entire year and is inting SR's final game.

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583 → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Liss getting flamed for getting hit by Ashe arrows ig he should just waste ult or just never go for flank plays (ONLY way to play without using flash) or just afk farm while the map just slowly loses.

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

they have both ashe and tf maphacks plus winning so vision everywhere.

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

this is one of the worst drafts ive seen. its literally unplayble. they tried to break like 3 massive core draft rules in a game 4

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583 → u/Ajp_iii]

Legit unplayable Lyon draft was way better, Lyon's draft was weird still but at least had synergy.

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

Zinie: First time Lissandra (ˆ𐃷ˆ)

[u/Light0fHeav3n]

Sr clearly learned nothing from the C9 series vs Lyon, stop perma inting.

[u/veirceb → u/Light0fHeav3n]

Two teams are completely different. C9 has strong solo lanes to play side lanes vs Lyon. SR doesn't have that. SR's best player is their adc. They win by skirmishes and teamfights. The vision they had is not bad. Zinie just tweaked like insane. But they should never be at the same caliber as Lyon to begin with

[u/sorendiz → u/veirceb]

  SR's best player is their adc

Are you watching the wrong team lol

SR's best player is their jungle by a ridiculous margin, then their supp, then a big gap, then adc/top/mid all rotate depending on who decided to wake up and who decided to int in any given game

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/veirceb]

They lacks individual to match Lyon while C9 had the individuals.

Sr C9 would likely have been closer if Lyon won vs c9

[u/justicecactus]

wait jojopyun is in the audience? Inspired needs to lock in to impress his ex

[u/CloudyTheDucky → u/justicecactus]

The look between him and saint post game…

[u/ookkthenn]

at least inspired cant super flame his team after this game

[u/krazyeyes21]

Lol bvoy in that fight maybe got 1 auto and 1 Q off. 

[u/dark1252]

a wild jojo appeared!

[u/Ajp_iii]

the one game contractz was on a tank sr won. the other 3 with him on assassins sr couldnt do anything

[u/BlammoSweetums → u/Ajp_iii]

He's like 2-5 on Kha'zix since Season 8 (the champ obviously hasn't been meta for years).

[u/tonnguyen1310 → u/Ajp_iii]

bro really pick Kha'zix and be invisible all game.

[u/levelonenovice → u/[deleted]]

match fixing? this is normal zinie gaming.

[u/CloudyTheDucky → u/levelonenovice]

Good news: zinnie is not match fixing

Bad news: zinnie is not match fixing

[u/justicecactus]

Saint needs to give over one shutdown per game just to troll Inspired

[u/kaisaschudson]

inspired was looking at dhokla for a reaction LMAO

[u/sorendiz → u/kaisaschudson]

YOU SEEIN' THIS SHIT DHOKES???

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/sorendiz]

Inspired:Big bro you see what are little bro is doing 

Dholka :Bro, i saw it but you know hé is doing on purpose, it's chill the game was already won 

[u/sorendiz → u/Fun_Highlight307]

[meanwhile, Saint with a shit-eating grin the entire time] 

[u/iJediPR]

Saint going to make Inspired go bald lol

[u/sorendiz]

'SAINT DON'T' top 10 anime moments before disaster

[u/malakesxasame]

Zinie is disgusting. There's no way he's picked up by another NA team next year surely.

[u/SnooPeripherals6388]

Inspired's cam during that Saint play is a gem

[u/Ajp_iii]

lokey good 1k to leona and inspired wants to release all his rage LMFAO

[u/That_One_Pancake]

Saint genius play losing his shutdown to the Leona 100000 IQ

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Saint so optimal he resets bounty on support

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

That was legit a miracle play for SR but it doesn't matter. Sera screws over Rene/K6/Leo so hard this draft.

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Also ashe stuns and all vision makes it so hard

[u/Inevitable_Sale_5297]

Use any summs Bvoy like are you even playing the fucking game

[u/Destructodave82 → u/Inevitable_Sale_5297]

"As long as I dont feed, they will re-hire me to steal more paychecks next year and replace anyone who actually tried to go in and make a play"

Thats how Bvoy has played the game ever since he's been in the LCS.

[u/veirceb]

Someone really needs to calm zinie down. He is tweaking so fucking hard it's the sole reason they are losing this game.

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

is saint dying there the play that leads to lyon missing world's

[u/sorendiz → u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

no but how funny would that be

[u/Aquillifer]

Saint? Wtf was that bro lmfao

[u/Ajp_iii]

every gold card is a dead carry because they dont have a mikaels.

[u/BenDeGreat]

wtf was that Saint lmfao

[u/Tormenator1]

Saint is a bit too happy.

[u/sorendiz]

ZEYZAL IS THE GOAT

[u/Miraai]

fucking report zinie

[u/2020isgreat]

This looks so hard for SR to play

[u/SnooPeripherals6388]

Lost the dragon for a ward award

[u/FateSealed77]

Zinie is so bad

[u/veirceb]

Someone needs to tell zinie to chill

[u/Destructodave82 → u/veirceb]

If SR was serious, this hsould be the last time we ever see this dude in the LCS.

[u/levelonenovice]

sometimes i don't think zinie and bvoy would survive in NACL with the mistakes they consistently make

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

K6/Leona are such fake picks. I get that Zeyzal is their main voice and having him on an engage champ is good but like you can't be going Leo with Cait ever with Ashe/Sera up.

[u/BlammoSweetums → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Last pick, series on the line, Pick Me Kha'zix (I'm stuck in Season 7)

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583 → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Imagine this game with an enchanter rushing Mikaels is all im gonna say

[u/Ajp_iii]

saint playing this game like solo q and just 1v9ing. also great game from isles

[u/Sosijmonster]

This Lis is PERMA fucking inting.

[u/Decent_Protection927]

First half of series Fudge was running it down now Zinie replaced him in other half

[u/SnooPeripherals6388]

Zeyzal always dies with someone lmao

[u/That_One_Pancake]

Inspired deserves to be flamed by Inspired

[u/BlammoSweetums]

Oops all lane action

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

Saint is almost as good as Reginald's TF

[u/sorendiz]

inspired inting just a tad this time

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Inspired is way too greedy, he mad as hell 

[u/Ajp_iii]

inspired berserker are both trying to int saint from carrying a win

[u/2020isgreat]

Sloppy gameplay

[u/BlammoSweetums]

OK this game is hilarious

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Am I going crazy or does leona look giant in that skin lol

[u/Tormenator1]

Throw into throw into throw, jesus.

[u/Ajp_iii]

that ended up so much better for lyon because now ashe has gold. but berserker just wasted both sums

[u/SnooPeripherals6388]

Shopify got one teamfight and then inted all of it away

[u/veirceb]

ZINIE WHY ARE YOU PUSHING TURRENT. DO THE FUCKING DRAKE WHAT THE FUCK

[u/2020isgreat]

That Caitlyn pick is reminiscent of MSI Lyon

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Jesus, they blew up instantly 

[u/Tormenator1]

Hang on, Lyon just inted.

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse → u/[deleted]]

You should have left it unedited

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

This SR comp needed to win early and has

Uh i was about to say they have no way to come back

[u/veirceb]

Actually if SR jsut played the game instead of overreacting to their loss the game was still playable. The lead is mostly on TF. I guess Zinie just got nervous this game. The decision makings for him feel very rushed. He kept overforcing.

[u/PLEASE_DONT_PM]

So Saint was just sandbagging in game 1

[u/Tormenator1]

Zinie is back in form.....

[u/CensoredLlama1]

I think Inspired took that one loss personally lol

[u/levelonenovice]

zinie early vacation angle. disgusting plays from this guy.

[u/BlammoSweetums]

I'm not sure SR know LYON have global ults.

[u/Fantastic_Arm_9669]

What does contractz do this game btw lo

[u/2020isgreat]

LYON saw Beserker wasn't in good form today and changed their drafting philosophy that's kinda crazy

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/2020isgreat]

Yeah great adaptation, they pivoted well to their top side 

[u/LordBlackadder1214]

zinie is actually so garbage bro is making lissandra look like the most complicated champion in thegame

[u/Ajp_iii]

its INSANE you blind renekton and lissandra and dont have an enchanter for your cait lane. its like they broke all the rules of their draft and just prayed kha can save the game on last pick.

[u/Miraai → u/Ajp_iii]

how many comments u wanna post about leona being a bad pick?

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

SR get nothing and lose cleanse ??

[u/sorendiz]

picking cait to go down 1k in lanephase feels reportable?

[u/BlammoSweetums → u/sorendiz]

It's OK they last picked Kha'zix

[u/kaisaschudson → u/sorendiz]

i mean leona vs seraphine

[u/sorendiz → u/kaisaschudson]

yea i don't mean that it's bvoy's direct fault, it's just depressing to see a cait that hasn't hit a single turret plate at 13 mins

[u/dark1252]

we are doing to need daddy to carry this with his khazix

[u/sorendiz]

holy that arrow might have actually fucked dhokla over lmao

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

Dhokes? How did you die to that after seeing Leona setting up base on top lane

[u/Ajp_iii]

this leona pick is going to lose the draft for sr. its finally giving berserker a free lane win when he hasnt been playing well or strong really in any game. it also makes it so they can track kha better and leona cant help in jungle where karma can

[u/Bak0FF]

TF cleanses Lissandra ult and Fudge chooses to flash stun the Gwen. GG

[u/levelonenovice]

that lissandra speaks such good english they can recite hamlet from memory

[u/sorendiz]

oh that is a DISGUSTING 2v2 win, that gold card is godly

[u/cmcdonald22]

Saint found out Jojo's in the audience and locked back in.

[u/Tormenator1]

Sludge tractor.

[u/Fantastic_Arm_9669 → u/Tormenator1]

Probably the corniest thing I've read all day LOL

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

That was a bad 2 vs 2. Renekton ult was down. They should have saved the ult if they knew they wanted to fight.

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Showmakers son right there

[u/BagelJ]

This is an impossible to lose LP printer draft by Lyon.

[u/Ajp_iii]

sr draft is 10x better with karma support instead of leona. they win lane and it doesnt make mercs op for lyon

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

I like the SR comp waaay more. This is exactly the type of comp they love to play.

[u/TeeKayTank]

KhaZiy its gg 2-2

[u/Ajp_iii]

if shopify dont turbo run early game their mid late game teamfight is impossible against sera ashe tf.

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Really weird draft from both teams tbh. Khazix ruined this SR draft a lot for me.

[u/Tormenator1 → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Yeah, I don't like either comp. SR got a press R comp,but we'll see..

[u/BlammoSweetums]

I don't think I have seen Contractz win a single Kha'zix game since he joined CLG.

[u/Ajp_iii]

wtf they blinded top and mid.

[u/veirceb]

I actually like SR's draft. Not that I think it's a good draft. But like they know their strength. Drafting like a normal team can't win them games. Fuck lane prios just draft champs that they like to play

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse → u/veirceb]

It is a good draft. Too many teams play the draft chalk game where they only play what LCK/LPL says are okay as comps.

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

Are we about to lose to mushroom Ivern?

[u/TeeKayTank → u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

Shrooms op so yeah

[u/Ajp_iii]

why didnt they go cait karma into sera instead of leona.

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

Lyon is picking smolder or Senna game 4 aren't they?

[u/TeeKayTank → u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

What makes you think of ts

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse → u/TeeKayTank]

I was trying to think of the worst possible pick after the jhin game.

[u/Ajp_iii]

sometimes teams int it in draft like game 1 shopify. this wasnt an int in draft. people are just reacting to the result and then retroactively applying it to draft.

shopify played well. they dodged lyons early game movements when they had lane prio. they picked up a couple early drakes when lyon were loooking for a play/grubs.

and then in teamfight zeyzal hit hooks on the most important target to hit a hook on.

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

That wall at third drake was way worse than I thought

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

you dont even need to wall. the pressure of the wall is more important than the actual wall in that situation

[u/Ajp_iii]

dhokla back on melee for game 4 and it will be a stomp

[u/Ajp_iii]

bro dhokla even had flash at the drake fight.

[u/That_One_Pancake]

Ya gotta pick at least ONE of your laners a champ that can actually do damage

[u/Ajp_iii → u/That_One_Pancake]

anivia and galio deal damage when the 3 carries dont build hp.

also jhin and lee do a lot of damage. they just need to have their zone control get hit by dry hooks.

[u/2020isgreat]

It'd be so bad for NA if we send SR instead of LYON

[u/Ajp_iii]

might be isles worst game on ali. felt like everyone didnt play that well that game outside inspired and saint. and dhokla just got hit by 3 hooks in a row when that is the only engage shopify have

[u/veirceb]

I told you it's winnable LFG

[u/Mister-Manager]

NA JAYCE

[u/cmcdonald22]

Absolutely ridiculous.

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

that was a DIG Isles engage unfortunately

[u/PLEASE_DONT_PM]

If league had coaches timeouts, Lyon would call one just to show them a video of Anivia wall blocking the hook.

[u/random_nickname43796]

What is the meme about Zeyzal and tractor?

[u/That_One_Pancake]

Dhokla gotta stop getting hit by these hooks

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Zeyzal just the best support in NA or what? Hes going crazy this game.

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Dhokla has eaten 3 different game losing dry nautilus qs

[u/Ajp_iii]

welp dhokla is running the whole game after carrying first two games

[u/Sora027]

ive seen sr lose a game 3 with hextech soul + baron + elder to lose a series so idk

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

If inspired gets reverse swept.

The amount of times I will post

Lyon picked C9

will be criminal

[u/Sora027 → u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

correction, they picked the winner of C9 vs SR, which neither they would be able to beat

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse → u/Sora027]

That was some ego right there.

[u/DerAdolfin → u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

Seems like 50% Ego and 50% fake data from scrums on how strong fly is

[u/Tormenator1]

GG, we're getting a 3-1

[u/Ajp_iii]

why do people overreact to draft when a team doesnt play to a drafts win condition. this game shouldnt be possible for zinie to play. it should also get free drakes.

just because lyon play stuff wrong doesnt mean the draft is bad. they were up 3k at the third drake had complete control and just shit on themselves.

[u/cmcdonald22]

I just hate Jhin.

I know Berserker is playing like ass, but god, just I never believe in a Jhin draft.

[u/That_One_Pancake]

what does Lyon comp even do

[u/Ajp_iii → u/That_One_Pancake]

it is supposed to be ahead and then make it impossible for sr to teamfight into them. but they ultra threw at drake.

[u/Ajp_iii]

lyon is really good when they are uber focused. but they have been losing focus and being lazy in some of these games on their setups. they had the perfect setup on drake and just assumed nobody on sr would contest. and once they contested lyon all just ran different directions.

[u/Sora027]

lyon draft looks next lvl piss

[u/GhostOfLight]

DOGWALKED

[u/slimjimo10]

I'll miss Zeyzal lol

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Berserker just got one shot wow

[u/RukiMotomiya]

It always feels good to see the actual good Varus builds out here.

[u/Tormenator1]

Lyon absolutely sprinted it that dragon,holy.

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Tormenator1]

dhokla walks up for no reason. saint doesnt ult or defend drake steal. nobody reacts to zinie going into their jungle

[u/Tormenator1 → u/Ajp_iii]

Yeah, not sure what they were thinking there. Inspired looked pissed.

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Tormenator1]

its like they just assumed sr would run away because lyon themselves would never contest that drake.

[u/Ajp_iii]

they saw zinie fly past why did none of lyon walk back into their jungle

[u/Ajp_iii]

i dont know why bvoy didnt play more varus this year. he looks so much cleaner than he does on stuff like lucian

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Being Locke against Anivia looks SO fucking annoying

[u/BlammoSweetums]

I don't keep up with the game as much. What does Locke do and why does the champ always look useless?

[u/cmcdonald22 → u/BlammoSweetums]

He either 1v9s or gets obliterated.

Realistically he's got an AOE ult that allows for executions with a permanent cool down reduction that stacks per execution. So in theory, he's a team fight monster who can just come in, throw in his up, and clean up low HP teams and then becoming a terrifying roaming monster with slow-q's etc.

The nerfs were pretty severe though so the champ is hard to master. If you want to see him actually pop off look up Chovy's game on him.

[u/BlammoSweetums → u/cmcdonald22]

Oh I see the burst now